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Ethan Cox

Ethan Cox is a journalist, editor and political commentator. A co-founder of Ricochet, his writing has appeared everywhere from the National Post to The Tyee and from the Toronto Star to Al-Jazeera America. He is a political analyst for various television networks and a regular on Montreal radio.

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ViewsWednesday, May 06, 2015What Does the NDP’s Stunning Alberta Win Mean for Stephen Harper?In a stunning turn of events Tuesday, the Alberta NDP swept to power with a majority government in Canada’s most conservative province. As the dust settles on a campaign that seems to change everything, what does this mean for the fall’s federal election? “Friends, change has finally come to...Read more

ViewsSunday, April 05, 2015The Students Strike Back: 75,000 Protest Austerity in MontrealThe weather report had called for “snow/rain,” but instead the clouds parted and the largest demonstration in Quebec since the student strike of 2012 was bathed in the sunny glow of springtime in Montreal. In Square Victoria, a park in the heart of Montreal’s financial district, each metro brought...Read more

ViewsMonday, March 25, 2013'There Is No Right to Protest': Montreal Police Deny Charter RightsThis is approaching absurdist comedy," tweeted Montreal Gazette reporter Christopher Curtis Friday night, trapped in a police kettle from which Montreal's finest inexplicably refused to release him as his deadline approached. "Did they really, actually arrest Anarchopanda????" replied well known Québécoise pundit Josée Legault.Read more

ViewsSunday, May 27, 2012In Quebec, A Revolution of Love, Hope and CommunityIn almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution of society as we know it.Read more

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